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Nicolas Sarkozy is a sex symbol in Israel

There is a lot of negative press in France around Nicolas Sarkozy. Too much in my opinion. Actually there is always negative press in France when you try to change things and in France a lot of things need to be changed. However in Israel, some people think he's pretty sexy and make very strong declarations. Below a video collected by a friend of mine that is quite "refreshing". Maybe he would have stayed a little more had he seen it? :) See for yourself below.

I am not sure you would hear that in France. I have not pushed it yet and the videos has been watch already close to 700 times..

By the way the annotations/bubbles on the video were made directly out of YouTube that released the new feature a few hours ago, shooting in PlyMedia's field an israeli startup

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The Laptop/Bathroom situation

I wanted to write this post for a long time but i have just read this great article in Wired about what you should/could do when you work in a cafe with your laptop and that suddenly mother nature calls you to your duties. Working myself often in Cafes in Israel or Abroad i perfectly know the situation. In the article the writer mentions 5 solutions that do not work for me.

1. Solution 1: Leave it there on the table

2. Solution 2: Ask the person next to me to keep an eye it

3. Solution 3: Bring it in with me

4. Solution 4: Bring everything in with me

5. Solution 5: Lock the thing up

Here is my advice: for me the only thing that works, is to take care of what should be taken care of BEFORE you sit down. You might be afraid to lose this great table you spotted. I just ask someone to keep me the place and we re done.

Sorry for the unusual interruption of the blog, you can go back to work

Now i really want to shop at Diesel

Hilarious, Smart way of creating virality using counter rules of advertising (meaning by not mentionning anything related to the product)

Picasso in 3D

Quite amazing i must say. via emob

Video: China trains have created a new job: passenger pusher

What i really wonder is what is going to happen once the door will open at the next station

Not totally fool

This picture on the left (click to enlarge) is a fake cover i have created for april's fool for TechCrunch France. I pretended a few days ago i would launch FranceCrunch a paper magazine out of TechCrunch France and added in the note plenty of details that would make it obvious it was an april's fool (like a paper version of tetris, a hack on how to install android with the iPhone....). I expected 100% of readers to get it right away

But i was wrong. at least 50% of reactions including of people that are very advanced internet pros were buying the story and really believed it. I received a lot of emails, skype messages, twits, facebook notes, ...to encourage, support and even try to find a way to collaborate (including from some famous journalists). And if you check the number of comments and trackbacks you will realize the subject fired a great conversation. I even had to write a complementary note to explain this would not happen and probably disappointed a few.

I then realized the idea was not totally stupid, although i think it does not make sense from an economical point of view. I think what made people really excited about the idea is the possibility to find blog content in newspapers. I don't know what is the right formula but here is maybe a free good idea: creating a magazine out of blog contents.

It sounds to me that people who love blogs (and there are many) wish to find the kind of voices they are now used to read everyday, but in news papers. Maybe this will inspire someone to do something out of it

ps: FYI an american startup called blogburst is already distributing blog posts in national papers but i think the idea can become more powerful

I CAN HAZ YAHOO

you need to know this to understand.

The true reason why the MacBook Air is so expensive

I have been inquiring for days. Here is the reason: The envelope.

Yes the envelope

It is a special one a very expensive one. One that can contain your laptop, very rare. Requires a special treatment and made of rare material. They should ship the laptop without it to make the Macbook air cheaper

update: i wrote this thinking it was a joke. actually others went further and created the official non-official MacbookAir Envelope (cheaper than what i assumed above)

 

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How to piss off your fans in 10 seconds

I already said it i love the genius jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, but his ego is as huge as his talent.

Check out below how he welcomes his audience on stage as they start taking photos (i saw him reacting the same in France 10 years ago).

You can hear people laughing behind

I think this is not funny. At all.

I heard the Mayor of Umbria (the city where this concert took place) had to call keith jarrett to apologize. ?????

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The Top 10 kinds of VCs to avoid

I merely copied the post of my TechCrunch colleague Mike Butcher. This is a short and a funny and a good one:

1 ) Mr. Armchair (Lots of opinions about Google)
2 ) Mr. One-Hit-Wonder. (Sold a dotcom in the late 90s. That’s it.)
3 ) Mr. Revisionist Historian (Invested in eBay after it went public)
4 ) Mr Arsehole (Nice one minute, nasty the next. Divorce is a hobby. Fun to get pissed with though).
5 ) Mr. Blue Blood (5th-generation money, smart, but always knows better than you).
6 ) Mr. Aggressive (Wants you to float next week).
7 ) Mr. Product Manager (Micro managing your business - and you - so you don’t have to)
8 ) Mr. Regurgitator (Brings up every case study, just not the one right for your business)
9 ) Mr. Imitator (Read an urban myth about a VC who got 20% of a company)
10 ) Mr. Retired-on-the-Job (Well off, but no longer mentally firing on all cylinders)

Oh, and here’s a bonus:

11) Mr Tranche (Happy to back you this year, but next year… well, let’s see how the first year goes)